Flexible Outdoor Urinal Doubles As A Composter

French design studio Faltazi has presented a highly flexible outdoor urinal that recycles the pee of festival visitors into usable compost. The so-called Uritonnoir is designed as an eco-friendly way for outdoor sanitation for those moments it’s most needed.

Foldable plastic urinals can be added to a straw bale with the use of a lashing trap. Nitrogen from the urine combined with the carbon from the straw make a good combination for generating compost. After a festival the bale can be taken to a composting facility or left on the spot, and after a while the bale has turned into a nutrient fertilizer.

This method of generating compost is a very old-fashioned way to fertilize agricultural land — the same method of combining straw and urine is used in all kinds in traditional cattle farming. The temporary urinal comes in two versions: the flat-pack polypropylene ‘DIY’ model and the stainless steel ‘Deluxe’ model. Which one to use predominantly depends on the poshness of the festival. The Uritonnoir will be used first in June during the French heavy metal festival Hellfest. I guess they will go for the plastic version here…

You may know the Berlin-based inflatable architecture gurus of Raumlabor since we have covered several of their projects in the past, such as the traveling bubble Spacebuster, or the Hovercraft, a translucent membrane wrapped around a modernist building. They are back with a new project. Under the name of Soft Solution, the Raumlabor people have realized a new installation for the 4th European Month of Photography in Berlin.

We are delighted to announce that on Wednesday the 28th of May Pop-Up City will be hosting its second live event! Come and join us in Beursschouwburg, Brussels, where you can expect an evening of innovative, creative and diverse ideas about urban life and city-making.

In this article we introduce you to a new concept — Justice on the Go. The local authorities of Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have introduced mobile courts. The aim of this initiative is to bring low-cost and quick justice to the doorsteps of the people.

As urban farming is becoming a serious business in many cities around the world, it’s interesting to see how the city farming scene extends its influence from a ‘vacant-lots-only’ phenomenon to a ‘rest-of-the-city’ phenomenon.